Is there any effort to create a micro transaction system for the fediverse? TikTok, YouTube, and Instagram pay content creators for content. Is there any hope to bring people over from those platforms in a way they can monetize? I love the ad free state of Mastodon, I don’t want to see that change. I also like supporting the arts and the people that make them. If there existed some micro transaction system built into the fediverse, that could be the thing that directly attacks the only advantage social media companies actually have. Wouldn’t you love to see a world without Facebook? #microtransactions #federated #indie #creators #maker
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I think the #LightPhone3 is better than a shitty "#ProducedEwaste" #Android 8.1 brick from China but I don't consider it worth the premium asked [U$D 799 MSRP, U$D 599 preorder] for it.
- Plus their #Website being built to mandate #JavaScript isn't very "respecting" of me as a potential user.
I think people can get a better experience buying a #degoogled #Fairphone with #eOS and just put #RelaunchX as an #eInk-optimized #launcher on it and have a better option.
- But I guess given #ForProfitHealthcare in the #USA is expensive I can see why a lot of people would rather buy such a device and sell their old one than seek therapy if they are susceptible to shitty patterns that #developers harness to maximize #screentime and #revenue.
Can't have #doomscrolling or #microtransactions if it doesn't support #NSAbook's #apps or shitty #PayToLoose #games...
- I do however acknowledge that there is a #market for #smol & #sleek "#StupidPhones" or rather compact #Smartphones and I do want to see more competition for it.
What I do have to say is that #MKBHD acknowledges that he isn't the target audience and "that's fine"...
- I just think that requiring people to sign up to some account just to be able to add/remove #Apps is a major #nope in my book.
I stayed off #GooglePlay for longer than it's being called like that and their "#lightOS" is most likely some tightly locked-down Android...
- It's just an insultingly high pricetag for < $200 internals and the best feature they have isn't even the phone but offering a "no frills" plan which seems okay (by #USA standards!) but still...
I think people would be more accepting if it was a $299 or even $399 device, but at a price of a @monocles #phone whilst being way less versatile it's just not worth it.
- Cuz it's not even a super "secure" device or offers something like a "concierge service" where the device price is artifically high to filter out average #WageWorkers without much disposable income...
Games can no longer use virtual currencies to disguise the price of in-game purchases in the Europeean Union
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_831
Hooray! Electronic Arts heroically releases some aging Command & Conquer games as open source, because who doesn't love a blast from the past... when everything else is a microtransaction nightmare? 
GitHub jumps in with a buffet of irrelevant buzzwords and features, but hey, at least we can now command and conquer our #Nostalgia. 
https://github.com/electronicarts #ElectronicArts #CommandAndConquer #OpenSource #GamingCommunity #Microtransactions #HackerNews #ngated
GitHubElectronic ArtsElectronic Arts, inspiring a global community of players to explore new ways to play every day - Electronic Arts
Why Not Zoidberg? 
Worst idea for an MMO ever just dropped:
https://www.pcgamesn.com/eve-frontier/survival-game-announcement
A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks - https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/a-european-consumer-watchdog-wants-you-to-be-able-to-buy-exactly-as-much-in-game-currency-as-you-need-not-fixed-chunks #microtransactions #EpicGames #Microsoft
Rock Paper Shotgun · A European consumer watchdog wants you to be able to buy exactly as much in-game currency as you need, not fixed chunks
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Ooh I didn't realize they're a Chinese subsidiary directly owned by China. So... Servers might have enough financial backing to stay up, but I wouldn't touch it with a ten foot pole.
Oh look another massive online experience. Will it take more than a year before the servers are shut down?
Eine:n Indieentwickler:in mit ein paar Euro zusätzlich unterstützen? Gerne. Eine Multimilliarden #Megacorp mit noch mehr Geld unterstützen, wenn man schon 50 € oder noch deutlich mehr für ein unfertiges Spiel gezahlt hat und mit #Microtransactions zugeschmissen wird? Fuck no!
Today's #trivia: What is the world's first online social network?
=> Cyworld (싸이월드), launched in 1999.
#DidYouKnow It was also the first to introduce (1) #microtransactions; (2) #virtualitems; (3) isometric [chat] rooms; & (4) custom avatars.
Was wäre eigentlich, wenn auch Ingame Shops am Sonntag geschlossen hätten?
A new report from CFPB (US) examines consumer risk in the videogame industry:
Game products & services resemble financial products
Game companies offer little support for scammed consumers
Game companies collect surveillance data about players of their games
https://www.consumerfinance.gov/data-research/research-reports/issue-spotlight-video-games/
Consumer Financial Protection BureauBanking in video games and virtual worlds | Consumer Financial Protection BureauGaming marketplaces increasingly incorporate banking and payment systems. Learn how the CFPB is monitoring the use of virtual currencies in online games.
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"All the items are obtainable in-game" is ALSO a bad take!
"But what about the parent that doesn't have much time a day and want to skip x to have fun?!?"
Oh? You know how that could be solved?
Accessibility options, skippable battles, fine-tunable difficulty and, ultimately, in single-player games, cheat codes, that always let you do whatever you wanted for free since the inception of #videogames!
But no, people want "easy fatalities" for 1€ per use instead!
I stand by what I always said:
In-game transactions in non-free-to-play-games are and always were bad and horrible and the cheap "well, you don't HAVE to buy it" argument is the reason they managed to fill all of our games with this shit.
In free-to-play games I understand they have to earn money SOMEHOW.
But in paid, full-price games, I only accept actual, "big" expansions. And, well, maybe stuff exclusively made to go to charity, MAYBE.
Wie ist deine Meinung zu InGame Käufen oder Mikrotransaktionen?
Nutzt du sie oder vermeidest du sie?
This should be game over, man! Game over!
Netflix naturally brings ads and microtransactions to its games - Desk Chair Analysts
https://dcanalysts.net/netflix-naturally-brings-ads-and-microtransactions-to-its-games/
I just found out that the new BPI app no longer support #gcash fund transfers below 300 bucks.
I've never had a #Gcash account, and the only way I got around doing #microtransactions with folks using that wallet is via the old BPI app, where I can simply transfer to the recipient's number.
I ended up paying cash, but I'd love to know if there are alternatives other than signing up for gcash.
Many small vendors still don't use #QRPH codes, and (annoyingly) rely on giving out phone numbers.
